i didn't say

What I couldn't say was...

Beloved, will you be here

in this world with me

long?

What I didn’t say was...

Beloved, where have you

been?

What I didn’t do

was rise,

draw the curtains,

and

take the cup from your hand.

With God watching,

I should have shown

how Humans

can

Love.

I should have

taken your upper lip and

caressed it with the warmth of my tongue,

run a fingertip, along your lower lip,

and had you taste me.

I should have foundyour breath

and remembered it.

I should have placed myself

into the nape of you,

to know your scent.

I should have undone one by one

each of the buttons on your shirt,

and brushed my lips over every place

any clothing had just been.

And

with God watching

I should have taken you –

rigid, pulsing,

to hear you cry out

every last word that

I didn’t say

to

You

My Beloved.

The soul always feels joy, because the soul is joy.

The soul always feels love, because the soul is love.

The soul always feels connected with the wonder of life, because the soul is the wonder of life, expressed.
In order to feel this always, you have to be out of your mind.

You have to get “out of your head” and into your heart.
The heart is the bridge between the mind and the soul.

First get out of your mind and into your heart space.

From there it is a quick jump into your soul.
When you are in your heart space with another, that is when you can have a real soul talk.

When you are in your heart space with yourself, that is when you can experience connecting with your soul at a very deep level.

That is when you can experience communion with God.
If you stay in your mind, you will be affected by the constructions of the mind.

If the mind is dampened or weakened, the body will function in ways that reflect that.

If the mind is uplifted, strengthened, or renewed, the body will function in ways that reflect that.
If the mind is discouraged, diminished, restricted, frustrated, angry, wounded, or agitated, the body will demonstrate that.

If the mind is excited, enlarged, unlimited, exuberant, joyful, healed, and peaceful, the body will behave in an entirely different way.

If religion can make individuals ecstatic, why can’t it heal the world?

Because organized religion as you currently create it is largely an exclusive experience. It is exclusive to the individual or the group experiencing it. You have not found a way to include everyone in the same experience—that is, society as a whole—because you have not found a way for everyone to agree on how the experience should be experienced.
Indeed, you disagree on this question so dramatically that it has caused you to interrupt your own ecstasy to express your disapproval of another for not experiencing the same ecstacy.You have argued with each other, battled with each other, and killed each other in your anger over this ecstacy.

Why? Why have we done this? And why can’t...
...religions heal this?

Organized religions by their nature exclude as many as they include. This would be non-problematic if religions were tolerant of those they exclude, yet far too often this is not the case.
Religions, which you count on to teach tolerance, have not learned how to practice it, and so, teach just the opposite.

It is time you acknowledged a human truth at which no one wants to look.
One of the biggest problems in the world today is organized religion.
Organized religions are a problem.
They are not a solution, they are a problem.
Not all religions, but most. And certainly, most of the largest.
What you have in the case of most of your largest and most influential organized religions is the blind leading the blind.
Really. I mean, here is a nation in the midst of incredible grief, searching for spiritual support in a moment of need, seeking to experience its unity and oneness at a time of turmoil, only to have its own religions letting it down.
Here are a people wanting only to link arms and walk in-step, each person appealing to the God of his or her understanding, each person knowing that healing begins with the expression of tolerance for every other person’s understanding, only to find that organized religion forbids it.
Religions forbid tolerance. Can you imagine? Baptists refusing to pray with Jews or Catholics. Lutherans refusing to pray with other Lutherans. As if there was a wrong time, or a wrong place, or a wrong person with whom to pray.
Is it any wonder that human beings around the world are asking, “What’s wrong with this picture?” Is it any wonder that bumper stickers and billboards have begun to appear saying, GOD, SAVE ME FROM YOUR PEOPLE? Who in the world wants to believe in a God who is less charitable and less tolerant than they are?
How can we ask the world to heal itself when organized religion—the very institution which was meant to provide that healing—does nothing but inflict more and more damage, open wider and wider the wound, spread further and further its righteous indignation, its non-acceptance, its utter distain, its total intolerance?
Yet how can you blame religion if religions believe in a God who does exactly the same thing?

It is your understanding of God that is the main problem.
I will say again, so that you cannot miss it…the problem confronting humanity today is spiritual.

You do not understand who you are.

You do not understand who God is.

You do not understand how the world works.

You do not understand that love is the basis of all of life, nor can you comprehend a love that is unconditional.
You imagine that God is a small, petty, jealous deity who says to people bowed in prayer, “Sorry, it’s my way or the highway. Your prayer I hear. Your prayer I don’t, because you didn’t do it right. You did not please me.” In this you turn me into a replica of the worst of humanity.
You claim that you are striving to be God-like in your lives…and if this is the God you are striving to be like, you have succeeded brilliantly.

excerpt from new revelations: Neale

pasko

There was a savior born, in a manger, so we are told, many, many years ago.

But here is something that we have not often been told...

...there has been a savior born every night, and every day, and every minute somewhere on this planet, from the beginning.


something to consider, to think about, to ponder in our hearts.

What if each of us was intended to be a savior? What if we all were? What if every time someone is born, a savior is born? The only question then would be, whether we know it or not…

if Love really is what we are celebrating, it will not matter what kind of package it comes in, what kind of dogma it’s wrapped in, or what kind of doctrine it’s flavored with. It would only matter whether it was real and true, and present, here and now—in our lives and in our world.

If we want humanity to receive the true gift of Christmas, and to have it last the whole year through, we have to agree to become, each of us in our own way, the savior.

nothing that is going on during this special time will have any meaning until we give it meaning in our own lives, and in the lives of others. We’re living in a world right now that is not the kind of world we would choose, if we thought we had a choice.

Here is the news on this day. It is the news that Christ came to tell us.
We do.
We do have a choice.

All of us do, and if we will give ourselves permission to see it that way, and to see ourselves that way—as the person making the choice, as the person modeling the choice, as the person sharing the choice, we can save the day for humanity. The savior can be born right now, today, when we allow love unconditional to be born again in our hearts.

here's a heartwarming story: It’s perfect for this time of year, because it reveals to us just how easy it is to love, just how easy it is to be an individual savior in a world that’s begging to be saved, person by person, moment by moment.

This is a story which comes to us from a woman who, many years ago, worked as a volunteer at a hospital. She got to know a little girl named Liz who was suffering from a rare and serious disease. Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from her 5-year-old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness.

The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the little boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. The boy hesitated for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, "Yes, I'll do it if it will save her."

As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing the color returning to her cheeks.
Then his face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, “Will I start to die right away?"

You see, being young, the little boy had misunderstood the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give his sister all of his blood in order to save her.

What we’re talking about here is love. Plain and simple, short and sweet.

We’re talking about love.
Love can be sent to others in a thousand ways. Even thoughts of love can change things.
They can be felt. By you, and by the person you are thinking of, too.
Yes, they can.
You can literally “send love to another” with the power of your thought. In fact, you have a chance to do that right now. If you think of someone with love in this moment, whether they are in their body or have left their earthly body, it will not matter. They will feel it.
And this is how it begins. Through simple acts such as this. The love for another that you ignite in your heart is ignited in the heart of the other. The light may be dim at first, but it will never go out. It cannot, as long as you keep placing it there.

That was the message of the man whose birth we celebrate now.

Let’s give love to each other, and to all people everywhere. Then, the savior is born….in us.
And then we can bring, we can truly bring, Joy to the World.
Merry Christmas, everyone.

edited from Neale's blog

the new gospel

There IS no Master Race.
There IS no Greatest Nation.
There IS no One True Religion.
There IS no Inherently Perfect Philosophy.
There IS no Always Right Political Party, Morally Supreme Economic System, or One and Only Way to Heaven.
Erase these ideas from your memory.
Eliminate them from your experience.
Eradicate them from your culture.
For these are thoughts of division and separation, and you have killed each other over these thoughts.
Only the truth I give you here will save you: WE ARE ALL ONE.
Carry this message far and wide, across oceans and over continents, around the corner and around the world.
I will. Wherever I go, and wherever I am, I will say it loud and clear.
And with this declaration of The New Gospel, dispel forever the second most dangerous idea on which human beings have based their behaviors: the thought that there is something you have to do to survive.
There is nothing you have to do.
Your survival is guaranteed. It is a fact, not a hope. It is a reality, not a promise.
You have always been, are now, and always will be.
Life is eternal, love is immortal, and death is only a horizon.

Have I not told you that I will communicate with you in many ways—
an article in a three-month old magazine at the hair styling salon,
a chance utterance by a friend,
the lyrics to the next song you hear?

It is through these kinds of continuing “conversations with God” that I send you My eternal message: your survival is guaranteed.
The question is not whether you will survive, but what shall be your experience while you are surviving?
You are answering that question now, in what you call “this lifetime,” and what you call the next. For what you experience in the “next lifetime” can only be a reflection of what you have created in “this lifetime,” because, in truth, there is only One Everlasting Life, with each moment creating the next.
And so we create our own heaven, and our own hell!

Yes—now, and even forevermore. Yet once you are clear that your survival is not in question, you can stop worrying about which one of you is “better.”
You don’t have to punish yourself forever, scramble to “get to the top,” or destroy others to ensure that you are one of “the fittest.”
And so, at last, you can “get the hell out of there.” Literally.

Go, therefore, and teach ye all nations, spreading far and wide The New Gospel:
WE ARE ALL ONE. OURS IS NOT A BETTER WAY, OURS IS MERELY ANOTHER WAY.
Speak it not only from your pulpits, but from the halls of your governments as well; not only in your churches, but in your schools; not only through your collective conscience, but through your collective economies.
Make your spirituality real, Right Here, Right Now, on the ground.

care for water?

do you know that an estimate of 7 million people die every year from water borne diseases including 2.2 million children under 5 years old? it means to say that a child under 5 dies every 14 seconds.

there is a minimal 2.5% water which is not salty
only 0.3% available to people for use
1:6 access of people to clean drinking water
1.1 billion don't have access to safe drinking water and 2/3 of these are in Asia

amazing, huh!?

how well did you use water TODAY?
care enough for those who die of thirst...
SAVE WATER. SAVE LIVES!

9 characteristics of tomorrow's god

1. Tomorrow's God does not require anyone to believe in God.

2. Tomorrow's God is without gender, size, shape, color, or any of the characteristics of an individual living being.

3. Tomorrow's God talks with everyone, all the time.

4. Tomorrow's God is separate from nothing, but is Everywhere Present, the All In All, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Sum Total of Everything that ever was, is now, and ever shall be.

5. Tomorrow's God is not a singular Super Being, but the extraordinary process called Life.

6. Tomorrow's God is ever changing.

7. Tomorrow’s God is needless.

8. Tomorrow’s God does not ask to be served, but is the Servant of all of Life.

9. Tomorrow’s God will be unconditionally loving, nonjudgmental, non-condemning, and non-punishing.

thanksgiving

Let us rise up and be thankful;

for if we didn't learn a lot today,

at least we learned a little,

and if we didn't learn a little,

at least we didn't get sick,

and if we got sick,

at least we didn't die;

so, let us all be thankful.

-buddha

endless gifts

If you just look at all that already exists in your life,

all that youalready have:

unlimited air to breathe,

ample lighting to see,

music tohear,

books to read,

stars to dream by,

trees to gaze at,

floors to dance on,

friends to cavort with,

enemies to befriend,

strangers to meet,

woods to walk through,

beaches to comb,

rocks to scale,

rains to cleanse you,

rivers to float you,

animals to comfort you,

you do have toadmit,

there's more of it than you could ever, ever, ever spend.

how do i pray?

Dear God,

who resides in me as me and works through me in every moment of my life,

help me to be more like Jesus,

and like all the saints and sages and spiritual masters who have come before me. Bring me the gentleness of Buddha,

the conviction of Moses,

the love of Jesus,

the strength of Muhammad,

the awareness of Baha 'U'Allah.

Shower me with the insights of the Q'uran,

of the Bible,

of the Upanishads,

of all Sacred Scriptures of all religions.

Bring me the wisdom and the insight --

but, mostly, the love and compassion,

the caring and the gentle kindness --

that all spiritual teachings invite us to experience in, as, and through ourselves.

This I ask in the name of all that is good and holy and divine.

Amen, and amen.

death penalty

The death penalty is a prime example of insanity. It is the use of force to end the use of force. It is the use of intentional killing to demonstrate that killing is wrong, and punish a person for it.

No problem can be solved with the same energy that created it. You can't end hatred with hatred. You can't stop anger with anger. You can't bring a halt to the hurting of others with the hurting of others. There is a certain immutable logic to this that cannot be denied.
Unless it can.

Where does one's spirituality fit into all of this?

Does God really want us to kill each other to stop each other from killing each other?

Is this what God wants?

inspired by Neale

what religions have taught us

GOD
Many humans have been told that What God Wants is for humans to understand that God is the Supreme Being, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, the Giver of Life, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Wise Beyond Human Understanding.

God is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the Unmoved Mover, separate from humanity, but the creator of it in His own image. Separate from life, but the Creator of it, as His gift to humanity.

Most humans have been told that God is a single God, a unified God, the Only God there is. The word Allah means, literally, the God. Some humans have been told that this One God is divided into Three Parts, one of which became human. Some humans have been told that there is more than one God. And some humans have been told that there is no God at all. The majority of humans in the Twenty-First Century believe in a God of some sort.

Most of those who do believe in God have been told that What God Wants is Love and Justice. To fulfill the first mandate, God has granted each human being ample and repeated opportunity to be reconciled with Him.

To fulfill the second mandate, God, at the end of each human life, sits in Judgment of every human soul, deciding at this Reckoning whether the soul has earned everlasting reward in Heaven or everlasting damnation in Hell.

Most humans have been told that God is a jealous God, God is a vengeful God, God is an angry God who can be filled with wrath and who uses violence directly on human beings—and who invites and even commands human beings to do so on each other.

They’ve also been told that God is a caring God, a compassionate God, a merciful God, a loving God who wants nothing but the best for human beings. All that humans have to do is obey Him. It’s easy for humans to know how to obey God because God has told humans exactly what to do and what not to do. It’s all there in Sacred Scripture. It can be found also in the words and in the teaching of God’s personal representative on earth.

These are the beliefs of much of humanity.

One result of this teaching: Many human beings are afraid of God. They also love God. So, many humans confuse fear and love, seeing them as connected in some way. Where God is concerned, we love to be afraid (we have made it a virtue to be “God fearing”), and we are afraid not to love (we are commanded to “Love the Lord thy God with all thy mind, all thy heart, and all thy soul”).

Humans fear what God will do to them if they do not obey Him. They have been told He will punish them with everlasting torment. Many human beings therefore rely heavily on their understanding of God’s word and God’s desires and what meets God’s approval when regulating their lives, interpreting situations or events, and making decisions.

Earlier it was said, “Humanity’s ideas about God produce humanity’s ideas about life and about people.”

This is painfully clear. This is painfully obvious.

GOD’S WORD AND GOD’S MESSENGER
Many humans have been told that What God Wants is for God’s Word to be recognized as being contained in the Holy Scriptures and Sacred Texts, and for God’s Messenger to be honored and listened to and followed.

There are many Holy Scriptures and Sacred Texts, including the Adi Granth, the Bhagavad-gita, the Book of Mormon, the Hadith, the I Ching, the Kojiki, the Lun-yü, the Mahabharata, the Mathnawi, the New Testament, the Pali Canon, the Qur’an, the Tao-te Ching, the Talmud, the Torah, the Upanishad, the Veda, and the Yoga-sutras, to name a few.

Many humans have been told that only one of these texts is the right one. The rest are wrong. If you choose the teachings of the “wrong” one, you’ll go to hell.

There are many Messengers, including...
...Noah, Abraham, Moses, Confucius, Siddartha Gautama (who has been called The Buddha), Jesus of Nazareth (who has been called The Savior), Muhammad (who has been called The Greatest Prophet), Patanjai (who has been called The Enlightened One), Baha’u’llah (who has been called the Blessed One), Jalal al-Din Rumi, (who has been called the Mystic), Paramahansa Yogananda (who has been called the Master), Joseph Smith (who has been called many things), and others.

Many humans have been told that only one of these messengers is the right one. The rest are wrong. If you choose the message of the “wrong” one, you’ll go to hell.

One result of this teaching: Human beings have been trying to figure out which is the right text and who is the right messenger for thousands of years. The followers of certain messengers and the believers in certain texts have sought to convince the rest of the world that the messenger and text of their persuasion is the only one to which people should turn.

On many occasions throughout history these attempts at conversion have turned violent. There has scarcely been a day on this planet when a battle has not been fought or a human being not killed in the name of God, or for God’s Cause.

The Holy Scriptures of all major religions indicate that vanquishing, punishing and killing is something that God Himself has repeatedly done, and so vanquishing, punishing and killing in God’s name and in the name of God’s Messenger is acceptable and, in some circumstances, required.

This is, many of the world’s people believe, What God Wants.

HEAVEN AND HELL
Many humans have been told that What God Wants is for people to live good lives, and for good people to go to Heaven or Paradise after their deaths, while bad people go to Hell, Gehenna, or Hades. Those in Heaven will live in unending bliss in reunion with God and those in Hell will live with other evildoers who have been damned to eternal torture. Where each individual soul goes will be decided at the Reckoning on Judgment Day.

Some humans have been told that hell is a temporary experience during which sinners are tormented by demons until the debt created by the evil of their lives has been paid, while others have been informed that hell is but a phase in a soul’s journey as it passes through many experiences of reincarnation.

One result of this teaching: Millions of people have structured their entire lives around the struggle to avoid “going to hell” and around the hope of “getting to heaven.” They have done extraordinary and sometimes shocking things to produce this outcome.

The concept of heaven and hell has shaped not only their behavior, but their entire understanding of life itself. It has also shaped human history.

LIFE
Many humans have been told that What God Wants is for life to be a school, a place of learning, a time of testing, a brief and precious opportunity to migrate the soul back to heaven, back to God, whence it came.

Many humans have also been told that it’s when life ends that the real joy begins. All of life should be considered a prelude, a forerunner, a platform upon which is built the soul’s experience of eternity. Life should therefore be led with an eye toward the Afterlife, for what is earned now will be experienced forever.

Most humans also believe that What God Wants is for people to understand that life consists of what people can see, hear, taste, touch and smell—and nothing more.

One result of this teaching: Humans believe that life is not easy, nor is it supposed to be. It’s a constant struggle. In this struggle, anything other than what is perceived by the five senses is considered “supernatural” or “occult” and false, therefore, into the category of “trafficking with the Devil” and “the work of Satan.”

Humans are struggling to get back to God, and into God’s good graces. They are struggling to get back home. This is what life is about. It’s about the struggle of the soul, living within the body, to get back home, to return to God, from Whom it has been separated.

Most people of religious persuasion focus heavily on Heaven and Hell. Those who believe that “getting to Heaven” is the ultimate Purpose of Life, and who truly and fervently believe that they can guarantee their entrance into Heaven by doing certain things while on earth, will, of course, seek to do those things.

They’ll make sure that their sins are confessed regularly, and that their absolutions are up to date, so that if they die suddenly their soul will be ready for Judgment Day. They’ll fast for hours, days, or weeks at a time, travel on pilgrimages to distant holy places, go to church or temple or mosque or synagogue every week without fail, tithe 10% of their income, eat or not eat certain foods, wear or not wear certain clothing, say or not say certain words, and engage in all manner of rites and rituals.

They’ll obey the rules of their religion, honor the customs of their faith tradition, and follow the instructions of their spiritual leaders in order to demonstrate to God that they are a worthy person, so that a place will be reserved for them in Paradise.

If they are distressed enough and oppressed enough and unhappy enough, some humans will even end their own lives and kill other people—including the totally innocent and the absolutely unsuspecting—for the promise of a reward in heaven. (If that promised reward happens to be 72 black-eyed virgins with whom to spend all of eternity, and if the humans in question happen to be 18 to 30-year-old men with little future and a dust-laden, poverty stricken, injustice-filled present, the chances of their making such an extraordinarily destructive decision will increase tenfold.)
They’ll do this because they believe this is What God Wants.

But is it?

reposted from Neale's blog

5 attitudes of God

When I was a child I had a deep fascination with God.

What was He like, I wondered?

Where did He live?

I know now that my ideas about God as a man living somewhere in the sky were the products of my childhood upbringing in a Roman Catholic family.

I know that God is not limited to being a "he" or a "she," but that God shows up in every form in which Life Itself displays itself.
Still, I hold onto this idea that there are some attributes of God.

I ask myself sometimes,

if God chose to show up as a human being, what would that be like?

What kind of personality would God have?

"In the moment of your total knowing (which moment could come upon you at any time), you, too, will feel as I do always," God said to me.

And what way is that?

Said God: "totally joyful, loving, accepting, blessing and grateful."

This is the way the soul always feels as well. That is because the soul of humans and the essence of God is one and the same thing. So our soul is always totally joyful, loving, accepting, blessing and grateful. The trick is to bring our body and our mind into alignment with that deep inner nature of our being.

The soul is always joyful because...

...Joy is what the soul (and what God) IS. God IS that which we would call, for lack of a more technical or clinical description, "pure joy." Ultimate happiness. Or what some Eastern mystics have call "bliss."

Because the soul is always in a state of bliss, or pure joy, it is always loving. As is God. God loving everything, because God is so excited with Itself! There is nothing that exists outside of God, nothing that is "not God," and so, everything that God is happy about and excited about exists within God -- and precisely because it does exist within God, God is happy about it! And so, God is eternally loving. God is loving everything about Life, because God is Life Itself, expressing.

If you were totally joyful all of the time, you, too, would be totally loving. There is no way you could not be. Yes, you might say, but how can anyone be totally joyful all of the time? Look at the world around us. The trick is to see the world as it is -- as it really is -- and not as it appears to be. This is how God sees the world, and so God is always totally joyful, and that causes God to be totally loving.
Because God is totally loving, God is totally accepting -- for pure love is the rejection of nothing. Pure love is unconditional. In fact, all love is unconditional. Anything less than that is not love, but some counterfeit version of that.

Because love is unconditional, it accept everything. It does this by making no value judgments whatsoever. It does not call one thing "good" and another thing "bad." A thing simply "is." Where we get into trouble in our lives is by attaching goodness to badness to a thing. We make value judgments, and those judgments create enormous difficulty for many reasons -- not the least of which is that we keep changing them. One day we call a thing "good" and the next day we call the very same thing "bad," depending on whether the thing we are judging serves our purposes or not.

Let me give you a simple example.

Rain.

One day we call rain good, the next day we call it bad. It all depends on whether it's raining on our crop or raining on our parade.

Killing is another example. We think we have an absolute Right and an absolute Wrong around this, but the truth is, we can't make up our mind until we know and understand what the killing is for. Killing in self-defence, as an example, may not be called "good," but most people and societies agree that it is not "bad." So we find a third word. It may be, we say, "necessary." That means it is required in order for us to do what it is we want to do. It is because of this reasoning that we call all attack a "defense." In this way, we can morally justify it. Yet what if nothing in the world had to be morally justified? This is the State in which God lives. Because God does not feel the need to morally justify (or condemn) anything, God can be totally accepting. But how can God be in such a place? Easy. Since God is the All in All, nothing can hurt, damage or destroy God. And since nothing can hurt, damage or destroy God, God has no need to judge it. Therefore, in the experience of God, a thing simply "is." So, too, is it in the experience of Godliness. If we truly want the experience of what it is to be Godly, we will begin by removing our judgments from everything. The only way to escape our judgments is to escape our illusions. Once we become, as God is, totally accepting, we move to the next level of Godliness, which is to become totally blessing. This is where God resides all of the time. God not only accepts what "is" in every single moment, God blesses it.

To bless something means to give it your best energy. Your highest thought. Your grandest wish. You send a thing good energy when you bless it -- and this is something physical that you are doing, not merely something conceptual or philosophical. Life energy can be moved around, manipulated, and we do this all the time with our thoughts. We also do it with our words and actions. Thought, word and action are the Three Tools of Creation. With these devices we create, and co-create with others, our individual and collective experience. We are literally producing the world around us.

That is why The New Revelations says that all behavior begins with beliefs -- and that it is beliefs we must change if we really want to change the world. Interestingly, no one who says they want to change the world -- international political leaders and worldwide religious leaders -- talks very much in these terms. Political leaders don't talk about beliefs at all, and religious leaders talk in terms of other people changing their beliefs, but insist that they, themselves, have all the right beliefs. Then they deny that this is precisely what causes the world to be such a dangerous place.
Now the true Master blesses all of this, she does not condemn it. And in so doing, the true Master transforms it, for the impact of his blessing energy shifts the energy of the condition itself. That is why blessing, and never condemning, is the greatest spiritual secret.

It is why all Masters have said, each in their own way and their own words, "judge not, and neither condemn. For that which you judge, judges you, and that which you condemn, condemns you, and that which you bless, blesses you."



Finally, God is always totally grateful, for thankfulness is the experience of God recognizing Itself. To recognize means to "re-cognize," that is, to "know again." When God knows Itself again (which God does in every single golden moment of Now), God once again becomes joyful and the glorious Cycle of Life which is Life Itself continues, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.


These are the Five Attitudes of God, and they are the five attributes of the human soul.



When we allow these characteristics to fill our minds and our hearts, we become Godly. Our whole lives change, as do the lives of those around us. For life around us cannot help but change when we fill it with God Stuff. And Joy, Love, Acceptance, Blessing, and Gratitude is God Stuff indeed.


The wonderful thing about these Five Attitudes of Godliness is not only that one produces and creates another, but that they can be run in reverse. That is, one start with Gratitude just as easily as one can start with Joy. Either way, if the feeling is fully expressed the first domino falls, and all the rest follow.

I have tried to overlay these Five Attitudes of God on my daily life. For me it is sometimes easier to begin with Gratitude. Sometimes when I first wake up, or during my day when I encounter some very unwelcome news or moment, it is hard for me to "get into joy." I just can't seem to go there, no matter how much I try. But Gratitude for me has been a real key. I can move into Gratitude, even for moments or events that I do not particularly welcome, because I know that all things lead to my highest good.

Nothing that happens in my life happens without good purpose. Everything is perfect, and when I can "see the perfection", I see the hand of God, and I know that there is a higher reason and that all things are good and that everything is bringing me to my highest expression of Who I Really Am.

We are all Celestial Scientists, creating something utterly magnificent in the laboratory called Life. We are creating our Selves. And there is no way we can wrongly do that. Nor is there any way that we cannot ultimately get to where we wish to go -- which is back to total union with All That Is. That is, back home to God.

When we know this, when we deeply believe it and completely embrace it, we find the grace to move through our lives -- and any moment in our lives -- with joy, love, acceptance, blessings, and gratitude.

And when we do that, we change our lives and change the lives of those whose lives we touch. And in this, we truly change the world.

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woman

If you kiss her, you are not a gentleman

If you don't, you are not a man

If you praise her, she thinks you are lying

If you don't, you are good for nothing

If you agree to all her likes, you are a wimp

If you don't, you are not understanding

If you visit her often, she thinks it is boring

If you don't, she accuses you of double-crossing

If you are well dressed, she says you are a playboy

If you don't, you are a dull boy

If you are jealous, she says it's bad

If you don't, she thinks you do not love her

If you attempt a romance, she says you didn't respect her

If you don't, she thinks you do not like her

If you are a minute late, she complains it's hard to wait

If she is late, she says that's a girl's way

If you visit another man, you're not putting in "quality time"

If she is visited by another woman, "oh it's natural, we are girls"

If you kiss her once in a while, she professes you are cold

If you kiss her often, she yells that you are taking advantage

If you fail to help her in crossing the street, you lack ethics

If you do, she thinks it's just one of men's tactics for seduction

She is a woman

If you stare at another woman, she accuses you of flirting

If she is stared by other men, she says that they are just admiring

If you talk, she wants you to listen

If you listen, she wants you to talk

In short:

So simple, yet so complex

So weak, yet so powerful

So damning, yet so wonderful

So confusing, yet so desirable

peace prayers of different religions

Hindu Prayer for Peace
Oh God, lead us from the unreal to the Real.

Oh God, lead us from darkness to light.

Oh God, lead us from death to immortality.

Shanti, Shanti, Shanti unto all.

O Lord God Almighty may there be peace in Celestial regions.

May there be peace on earth.

May the waters be appeasing.

May herbs be wholesome, and may trees and plants bring peace to all.

May all beneficent beings bring peace to us.

May thy Vedic Law propagate peace all through the world.
May all things be a source of peace to us.

And may thy peace itself bestow peace on all.

And may that peace come to me also.

Buddhist Prayer for Peace
May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings

of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses.

May those frightened cease to be afraid

and may those bound be free.

May the powerless find power,

and may people think of befriending one another.

May those who find themselves in trackless,fearful wildernesses - the children, the aged, the unprotected - be guarded by beneficent celestials,and may they quickly attain Buddhahood.

Zoroastrian Prayer for Peace
We pray to God to eradicate all the misery in the world:

that understanding triumph over ignorance,

that generosity triumph over indifference,

that trust triumph over contempt, and

that truth triumph over falsehood.

Jainist Prayer for Peace
Peace and Universal Love is the essence of the Gospel

preached by all the Enlightened Ones.

The Lord has preached that equanimity is the Dharma.

Forgive do I, creatures all,and let all creatures forgive me.

Unto all have I amity, and unto none enmity.

Know that violence is the root cause of all miseries in the world.

Violence in fact, is the knot of bondage.

"Do not injure any living being."

This is the eternal, perennial, and unalterableway of spiritual life.
A weapon, howsoever powerful it may be,

can always be superseded by a superior one;

but no weapon can, however,be superior to non-violence and love.

Jewish Prayer for Peace
Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

that we may walk the paths of the most high.

And we shall beat our swords into ploughshares,

and our spears into pruning hooks.

Nations shall not lift up sword against nation - neither shall they learn war any more.

And none shall be afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken.

Shinto Prayer for Peace
Although the people living across the ocean surrounding us,

I believe, are all our brothers and sisters,

why are there constant troubles in this world?

Why do winds and waves rise in the ocean surrounding us?

I only earnestly wish that the wind will soon puff away all the clouds which are hanging over the tops of the mountains.

Native African Prayer for Peace
Almighty God, the Great Thumb

we cannot evade to tie any knot:

The Roaring Thunder that splits mighty trees;

the all-seeing Lord up on high who sees

even the footprints of an antelope on a rock mass here on earth.

You are the one who does not hesitate to respond to our call.

You are the cornerstone of peace.

Native American Prayer for Peace
O Great spirit of our Ancestors,

I raise my pipe to you;

To your messengers in the four winds, and

to Mother Earth who provides for your children.

Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,

to respect, and to be kind to each other,

so that they may grow with peace in mind.
Let us learn to share all good things that

you provide for us on this Earth.

Muslim Prayer for Peace
In the name of Allah the beneficent, the merciful.

Praise be to the Lord of the Universe,

who has created us and made us into tribes and nations

that we may know each other,

not that we may despise each other.

If the enemy incline towards peace,

do thou also incline towards peace,

and trust God, for the Lord is the one

that heareth and knoweth all things.

And the servants of God,

most Gracious are those who walk on the earth in Humility,

and when we address them, we say "PEACE."

The Baha'i Prayer for Peace
Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity.

Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech.

Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness,

and a home to the stranger.

Be eyes to the blind,

and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring.

Be a breath of life to the body of humankind,

a dew upon the soil of the human heart,

and a fruit upon the tree of humility.

Sikh prayer for Peace
God adjudges us according to our deeds,

not the clothes that we wear;

That truth is above everything,

but higher still is truthful living.

Know that we attain God when we love,

and only that victory endures in consequences

of which no one is defeated.

Christian Prayer for Peace
Blessed are the Peacemakers

for they shall be known as the Children of God.

But I say to you that hear,

love your enemies,

do good to those who hate you,

bless those who curse you,

pray for those who abuse you.

To those who strike you on the cheek offer the other also,

and from those who take away your cloak,

do not withhold your coat as well.

Give to everyone who begs from you,

and of those who take away your goods,

do not ask them again.

And as you wish that others would to do you,do so to them.

SACRED OFFICE OF PEACE

Hindu Prayer
Oh God, lead us from the unreal to the Real.

Oh God, lead us from darkness to light.

Oh God, lead us from death to immortality.

Shanti, Shanti, Shanti unto all.

Buddhist Prayer
May all beings everywhere

plagued with sufferings of body and mind

quickly be freed from their illnesses.

May all beings swiftly attain Buddhahood.

Zoroastrian Prayer
We pray to God that understanding will triumph over ignorance,

that generosity will triumph over indifference,

that trust will triumph over contempt,and

that truth will triumph over falsehood.

Jainist Prayer
Peace and universal love is the essence of all the Gospels.

Forgive do I creatures all,and let all creatures forgive me.

Jewish Prayer
Oh come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

that we may walk the paths of the Most High.

And we will beat our swords into ploughshares

and our spears into pruning hooks.

Shinto Prayer
We earnestly wish that the wind will soon puff away

all the clouds hanging over the tops of the mountains.

Native African Prayer
For you are one who does not hesitate to respond to our call, you are the cornerstone of peace.

Native American Prayer
Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,to respect and to be kind to one another, so that we may grow with peace in mind.

Muslim Prayer
Praise be to the Lord of the Universe, who has created us and made us into tribes and nations that we may know each other,not despise each other.

Baha'i Prayer
Be a breath of life unto the body of humankind, a dew upon the soil of the human heart, and a fruit upon the tree of humility.

Sikh Prayer
Know that we attain God when we love,and only that victory endures in consequence of which no one is defeated.

Christian Prayer
Love your enemies,do good to those who hate you,bless those who curse you,pray for those who abuse you.Blessed be the Peacemakers,for they shall be called the Children of God.

let me apologize

We truly Are

One Nation, Of God,

Indivisible,

because We Cannot Divide The One Heart

no matter what We may say

or do to One another.

But let Me apologize to every God

for what We’ve done

in That name.

Let Me apologize to every People

for what We’ve each Believed,

as We took a Life.

Let Me apologize for every One

Who has forgotten

Oneness.

For Conquests.

For Slavery.

For War.

For Conversions,

and Missions.

For Rape

of Animals, Peoples, Planets.

Let Me apologize

for The Innocent

who

don’t even know

Their Guilt.

m.claire

The Three Statements of Ultimate Truth are:
1. We are all one.

2. There is enough.

3. There is nothing you have to do.

Taken together, these three statements are all that we would really need to know to live our lives joyously.

The first statement, in particular, carries sufficient power to eliminate all of the humanly created problems currently faced by the human race. If we thought that this statement was really true, the behaviors that we exhibit and in which we engage on this planet would disappear from our experience forever. That is because we would never do to ourselves the kinds of things that we do at present to each other. If we thought that we are all one, it would change the way we hold the experience of being human. We would then understand that what we do to another we do to ourselves and that what we fail to do for another we fail to do for ourselves. Most human beings are reluctant to embrace the idea that we are all one because to them it feels threatening. They imagine that they are going to lose their individuality and their sense of themselves. This fear of lost identity is what creates our lost identity. Through fearing that we will lose our very sense of self, we, in fact, make it impossible to...
...ever have a true sense of self. We do not know who we really are and we never will know who we really are in our experience so long as we imagine ourselves to be separate from others. The idea that we are all one is salvific. Adopting such an idea in our political interactions, in our economic interactions, in our military interactions would save us from ourselves. It would change everything in all human interactions. It would make military might virtually unnecessary. It would set our worldwide economies on their ear. It would alter the nature of politics, turning this human interaction into what it was always intended to be.

The second of the three statements of ultimate truth is the pronouncement that “There is enough.” This statement, too, offers immediate liberation from the most violent and destructive and self-destructive behaviors of the human race. Nearly all of our killing, almost all of our violence, and the vast majority of our self-destructive interactions with the world around us are caused by the idea that somehow there is not enough of something. There is not enough love, there is not enough time, there is not enough money, there is not enough oil, there is not enough power, there is not enough of whatever it is we think we need to be happy, to be safe, to be secure, or to be what we imagine is fully human. Conversations with God says there is enough of everything we need to be happy. It is all given to us here on the planet Earth, and the problem is not a problem of insufficiency, but a problem of inadequate distribution. In short, the human race has not learned to share. We have allowed ourselves to live within a system in which 5% of the world's people hold or control 85% of the world's wealth and resources. It is a matter as simple as that, and as soon as we get that we are all one, such a system could never remain in place. The statement “There is enough,” taken into our personal lives in a serious and meaningful way, would change everything on an individual level as well. The point here is that not only would this extraordinary insight alter human society on a macro scale, it would shift everything in our ground of being at the individual level, too. Our interactions with others, our love relationships, our encounters with life at virtually every level would be far different from the way they are now if we thought that this statement was true. The sad part about is that the statement is true, and very few people know it. Very few people have faith in it. Very few people understand or practice the Theory of Sufficiency as a part of their daily interactions with life.

There is always “more where that came from.” There is always more love, there is always more time, there is always more money, there is always more oil, there is always more of whatever it is you think you need to be happy. And if you can't find its exact duplicate, you can find some other substance or experience in the Universe which provides the same outcome. And so, for instance, if the oil truly runs out, we can use the energy from the sun. This is a simple example of what I mean.

The third statement of ultimate truth is widely misunderstood. The idea that there is nothing you have to do does not mean that there's nothing that you will do. It simply means that there's nothing that you have to do. It means that Doingness is not a required function of humanality. All human beings are doing something all the time. The question is not what are they doing but why are they doing it. This is the heart of the matter.
When Doingness springs from a state of being, it is a demonstration of who we imagine ourselves and create ourselves to be. When Doingness is an attempt to arrive at a state of being, its mission is distorted, its purpose is misunderstood, and the outcomes it produces are very seldom in alignment with the outcomes that we had hoped for.

The idea that there is “something you have to do” runs rampant through human culture. It was placed there by humanity's largest organized religions, which imagine that God has set down a series of requirements which must be met in order for us to enter heaven and receive our eternal reward. This mind-set now permeates the largest portion of human society, and translates itself into not only sacred and religious interactions, but also occupational and relational interactions as well. Indeed, nearly all of our interactions with life at whatever level we may want to consider are based upon a preconceived notion that there is something we have to do in order to be interacting in a way that is “right.”
The statement “There is nothing you have to do” is therefore also intensely liberating.

The Three Statements of Ultimate Truth are equally liberating, and, taken together, free the human soul at last to express itself in a way that has been designed by the Universe to allow humanity itself to reflect divinity in all of its creative, excited, and limitless expressions, opening the door of possibility wider than most people ever imagined possible.
Study these three statements carefully. Say them over and over again to yourself as your daily mantra. Use them as your constant companion. Allow them to form the basis of your every interaction, with yourself and with the world around you. But be careful. These statements are more powerful than they may on the surface appear to be. They can change your life forever.

how to deal with your significant other

Is there another way to experience partnership in terms of romantic relationships? Have you really understood the real purpose or the true meaning of relationships? Unfortunately, there’s no school that teaches these things. You can’t take a high school class in Relationships 101. It’s hard to even find such studies in college. We think we’re teaching it in Social Studies, but that’s not even scratching the surface. It’s going nowhere near the real issues. We have to keep our schools as non-controversial as possible, passing on to our children only that with which everyone agrees, and so we pass on no Grander Wisdom at all.

..., the startling statement “Relationships Work Best When You Always Do What Is Best For You.” All my life I had been taught that the way to make relationships work was to do what was best for the other. And so, I’d been going around trying to make the other person in the relationship happy, trying to make the other person satisfied, trying to make the other person glad, and fulfilled, and complete.
Now with CwG (Conversation with God) book it's telling me that I’ve got the emphasis all wrong. It is me that I’m supposed to worry about. It is me that I’m supposed to please. It is me that I’m to pay my attention to. Fascinating!

CwG says that there are only two questions to ask when considering a romantic relationship:

1. Where am I going?


2. Who is going with me?

And the important thing, CwG says, is not to reverse the order.
All my life I had been doing that. “Who is going with me?” I would ask, then I would decide where I was going. Or, more accurately, where we were going, which was, more often than not, not where I thought that I was going to be going.

In relationships, it’s important to keep things going well by going where you were going to be going. If you’re not going where you were going to be going before the relationship began, then you may not know where you are going—and the relationship may soon be going to hell.

What this little play on words means is that we had better not give up who we are in order to make a relationship work, because all we will do is lose who we are, and the relationship will not work anyway.

You cannot abandon yourself in order to find yourself.

So often in my life I thought that I had finally “found myself” in another. I hated being alone, and so would trade almost anything to have the company of another. What is understandable is wanting the company of another. Humans are social creatures. We do not do well in isolation. That is because we know, intuitively, deep down inside, who we really are (one with everything and everyone), and we wish to experience that. What is sad is wanting the company of another so badly that we give up the company of ourselves. That is, we disappear ourselves so that another may appear.
I did this over and over again in the first five decades of my life. Yes, that’s right, I said the first five decades. It wasn’t until I was a half-century old that I began to figure things out. And here is one of the things I finally figured out:
I will not be alone if I am my true self. Only by trading my true self for the companionship of another have I ever made myself alone. Because when I gave up my real self, I wound up resenting my “significant other” for “making me” do that—and it was this resentment that ate away at our relationship.
I now see clearly that the rock-the-boat truth in Book 1 of the CwG series—that relationships work best when you always do what is best for you—is a life-altering insight. It saves relationships, it does not destroy them. It creates harmony, it does not disrupt it. That’s because all we are talking about here is honesty. You must act honestly in relationships—that is, you must be true to yourself—and only then do relationships have a chance to really work functionally. Oh, we can have dysfunctional relationships very easily, and all we want, but if functional relationships are what we prefer, then “to thine own self be true” becomes a maxim that cannot be ignored.

the real secret of relationships—which is their purpose.
If you want to have some fun sometime, just go around asking people a simple question. Tell them you are taking a survey. Ask them, “What is the purpose of relationships?” You’ll be amazed at the answers you’ll get. What will most surprise you, though, once you’ve read CwG, is the one answer that you will not get. At least, not very often. In fact, hardly ever.
“The purpose of relationship is to provide a Contextual Field within which you may choose and declare, express and fulfill, experience and become Who You Really Are.”

And this is done not through what you get out of your relationship, but through what you put into it.Relationship does not exist to give you something, relationship exists for you to have something to give.
Outside of the context of a relationship with some other person, place, or thing, you will have no one and nothing to give to. And it is the giving of Who You Are that brings you the experience of it. And, of course, experiencing Who You Are is why you came here. It is the purpose of all of Life.
So now it looks as if we have come full circle, yes? First I’m saying, “Do what is best for you,” and now I’m saying “it’s only what you give to others that brings you happiness.”
I can see how, at first, this could seem like a contradiction, but stay with me here.
What if giving to others IS what’s best for you? Then you are doing what’s best for you WHILE you are giving to others.
Yet how could giving to others be what’s best for you? Only if you decided that the definition of YOU was larger than your previous definition, and included others. Perhaps, even, ALL others.
If you decide CwG is correct in declaring that We Are All One, then your definition of YOU suddenly takes in everyone and everything—and it certainly takes in the person you say you are in love with.
Therefore, what you do for that “other,” you do for yourself.
Now we have a whole different ballgame. Now, what formerly looked like selflessness begins to look like selfishness. Which is how it should be. You should feel SELFISH when you do something for another—because there’s nobody else in the room but you.
This depth of understanding of the true nature of relationship renders resentment virtually impossible.
But wait. Does this mean that we have to give up the wants and desires of the “local self” in order to satisfy the wants and desires of the Larger Self?
For me, the answer is no. For only when I have made the Local Self happy can I begin to be happiness for the Larger Self. That is why self-honesty has become so important to me. I have to be honest with my Local Self first, and act in accordance with what I know my own truth to be, before I can even start to think about moving out from there to the Larger Self.
Interestingly, this is what the Larger Self wants!
I know of nobody who is going to feel good if they think that I am sacrificing everything I am and everything I choose in life in order to make them happy. What they really want is for me to be clear about what makes me happy, then to come from that clarity and to live that clarity in all my announcements, choices, and actions. Then they can decide accurately, not based on false data, whether they can be in harmonious relationship with me.

This is what everyone wants. Everyone wants to be in a relationship that works. And that means a relationship that works for everyone—not just for one, not just for some.
Is it possible to achieve this? Is it possible to create it?
I believe it is. CwG says that it is.

posted by Neale Donald Walsch

questions teenagers would ask God

If you could ask God any question, what would it be?

Why do You let children get abused sexually and physically?

How come everyone wasn't born smart?

Why is the world filled with hate?

What’s the deal with the generation gap? Why can’t parents just talk with us? And why is there so much pressure—from parents, from school, from everyone?

Is my life controlled by fate?

Why are we taught facts, and not ideas, in school?

Will I return to You, and will You be happy with me?

How come I have to pay adult ticket prices at the movies when I’m 13, but I can’t see an ‘R’ movie? That’s stupid.

Why do we have to have three hours of homework after seven hours of school?

I’m confused and scared about what to make of my newly found sexual identity. How can I present that to the people I love?

How come people make such dumb laws?

If You made us, then who made You?

How is that a God of mercy can be such an isolationist and so intolerant to other views?

How can a God of infinite mercy condemn anyone for anything?

Why condemn magic that heals?

Why condemn for eternity those transgressions that are momentary?

Why is it that my parents notice only the things that I do wrong? How come adults want respect but don’t give it back?

Why do people die? What can't we live forever? What really is life after death?

Why is it that I can die for my country at 18, but I can’t enjoy a cold beer on a hot day? I feel like I need to be successful—at everything. My parents seem to desperately want that. But what is ‘success’?

I don’t know whether to hang with the popular “preppie” kids or the castoff “grungy” kids. Why does everyone have to separate?

Why do my parents freak out about sex? My God, they freak out.

Now aren’t those great questions? They’ll all be addressed here, as will many others that were asked—questions about dealing with authority, about choosing the right career, about drugs, about marrying or living together, about how the experiences of our lives are created, and even about what God looks like. (if you know any teenagers with questions such as these, you may want to direct them here!)

Why do you let children get abused sexually and physically?

There is so much sexual abuse in the world because there is so much sexual repression in the world. Humans have been taught from the time they are very young to be ashamed of their body parts and embarrassed or guilty about their sexuality. The result is that millions of people have sexual hang ups you wouldn’t believe.
you did not ask me why there was sexual and physical abuse in the world, you asked me why I allowed it—and I’m aware that that’s an entirely different question.

Yes, it is. So why do You allow it?

When I created life as you know it, I did so by simply separating myself into countless smaller parts of me. This is another way of saying that you were made “in the image and likeness of God.” Now because God is The Creator, that means that all of you are creators, too. You have free will, just as I have free will. If I had not given you free will, you could not create, but only react. If you could only do what I tell you to do, then you could not create, but only obey.
Obedience is not creation. It is an act of subservience, not an act of power. God is not subservient to anyone, and since you are a part of God, you are, by nature, not subservient to anyone, either. That is why, when you are made to be subservient, you immediately revolt. It is against your very nature. It is a violation of Who You Are at the very core of your being.
Teenagers know this more than anyone.

But what about those human beings who have done things with their free will that has been very hurtful to others?

There have been many people like that, and it is true that I could have stopped this. I did not stop it because the Process of Life itself is the expression of free will. Anything less than that is not life, but death.Even when the expression of free will does not serve the highest good, it must be allowed, or freedom itself is a mockery. The word “freedom” and the word “God” are interchangeable. You cannot have one without the other. For God to exist, freedom must exist.
The beauty of freedom, however, is that it can be expressed by all beings, not just a few. This means that the people of the Earth are free to eliminate the experiences of sexual abuse and physical abuse from their collective experience forever. They are also free to eliminate other conditions of cruelty and misery that they now endure. How?

Answers to some of the questions will be posted soon.....